As a POW, McCain got special treatment, went on French TV to say he wasn't being mistreated, and

confessed that he was an air pirate and that the US was guilty of war crimes.

If McCain was making up his POW experience, I assume he could make up a story better than that.

I have the requisite respect for McCain's experience. Of course, anyone who has gone through what McCain went through but NEVERTHELESS flip flops on torture like McCain did -- that's shameful.

New York Times reporter in Saigon, "Now that I've seen what the bombs and the napalm did to the people on our ship, I'm not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam."

(2) In the Fall of 1967, McCain nevertheless went on another bombing run targeting civilians; in a 1997 appearance on "60 Minutes," McCain admitted "I bombed innocent women and children." While on this civilian bombing run, McCain was shot down and and fell into a lake where he was rescued from drowning by Mai Van On, a North Vietnamese man who risked his own life to save McCain despite the fact that McCain was bombing Mai Van On's own city.

(3) Because his father and grandfather were US Admirals, McCain received special medical treatment in North Vietnam; in fact, French journalist Francois Chalais did a televised interview with McCain, who was videotaped smoking a cigarette during the interview in the hospital, shortly after he was captured and this exchange took place:

CHALAIS: "How are you treated here?"
MCCAIN: "Very well. Everybody is very nice to me."
CHALAIS: "How is the food?"
MCCAIN: "This isn't Paris, but it is alright."

(transcript - http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/declassified_chalais_interview_12_29_1967.pdf ).

(4) According to his own autobiography, Faith of My Fathers, McCain offered to give the North Vietnamese US military intelligence in exchange for his medical treatment, but McCain claims he intended to renege on this promise.

(5) While a POW, McCain received what Dick Cheney calls "enhanced interrogation," and as a result he signed a written confession that "I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate."

(6) I'd like to see an examination of what McCain has learned from this experience -- "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and flip flopping on torture.

that's all.